Genesis 34:29

29 They captured and plundered all that [was] in the houses--all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.

Genesis 34:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 34:29

And all their wealth
Or "power" ^F15 or "strength"; every thing that made them mighty and powerful; their gold and silver, their jewels, and rich furniture of their houses, their arms and weapons of war, their goods and substance, in which they trafficked:

and all their little ones and their wives took they captive:
they spared the women and children, as was usual war, and in the plunder of towns and cities:

and spoiled even all that [was] in the house;
of Shechem or Hamor, or in any of the houses of the inhabitants; they rifled and plundered everyone, and took away whatsoever they found in them; but as Jacob disapproved of this unjust, cruel, bloody, and perfidious action, so no doubt, as he set the captives at liberty, he restored to them their cattle and substance.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mlyx) "siquidem" (lyx) "proprie potentia, robur", Drusius; so Ainsworth.

Genesis 34:29 In-Context

27 The [other] sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.

28 They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever [was] in the field.

29 They captured and plundered all that [was] in the houses--all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.

30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I [am] few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"

31 But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?"